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West Asia
Iranian film director wins Manhae Award
Iranian dissident and film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf received the 18th Manhae Peace Award, the Manhae Prize Committee said Tuesday. He is the second Iranian citizen to win the award. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi won it in 2003. The award was established in 1997 to commemorate Han Yong-un —…
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East Asia
Korea shipbuilding companies take the lead
Korea’s shipbuilding companies reclaimed the number one spot beating China. As of 12, according to CLAKSONS Research, international research institution, said domestic shipbuilding companies’ amount of order is 1.399 million CGT (Compensated Gross Tonage) which exceeds the amount of order for Chinese companies (1.223 million CGT) An official from the…
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West Asia
Statement on the 6th anniversary of Russia-Georgia War
In this season of numerous Independence Day anniversaries, Georgia is reminded of the Russia-Georgia August 2008 War, which broke out 6 years ago on August 7. On this day, Russia invaded Georgia with a large-scale military operation and has since been occupying Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions, which makes…
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East Asia
Special Prize to a united effort to help SSangyong Motor workers
The Citizens of Sonjabgo’s Yellow Envelope Campaign Mrs. Bae Chun-Hwan and 25,403 others (as of May 12, 2014) Early this year, a woman sent a letter to a current-affairs magazine. She stated that she began writing after reading an article about the Supreme Court’s verdict in a damage suit filed…
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West Asia
Farming Words
As a young boy, I used to visit my grandfather’s village. There, my stay was a mixture of enjoying nature and tracing folk stories. I still remember the magical green carpet of fields, where everything flying over was white; the flocks of cotton travelling the pages of the blue sky’s…
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West Asia
For the day Israeli and Palestinian children receive the Manhae Prize
It is an absolute honour to receive such a prestigious award. Especially as this award has previously been given to major icons like the great Nelson Mandela. Besides the joy that comes with receiving this award that makes my life time effort on this journey more meaningful, I also feel…
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The Tale of the 3 Shipbuilding Nations
The Tale of the 3 Shipbuilding Nations–a meteorological breakthrough 2014 Hwang sunghyuk / Hwang&Company,Ltd. The shipbuilding market, which had remained shrunk since 2008, has seemingly started to be picking up since early 2013 to some degree. With the advent of 2014, however, it is losing ground with a dwindled vigor.…
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